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Official Rules and Regulations (“Official Rules”)

TheGo Digital contest (the “Contest”) is sponsored by Belair Insurance Company Inc. ("belairdirect" or the “Sponsor”). The Contest starts on 23, October 2019, 1H00 EST and closes on 30, April, 2020, 23H59 EST (the “Contest Period”).

The Sponsor reserves the right to permit its subsidiaries and affiliated companies and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, advertising or promotional agencies (the “Agents”) to perform all or any portion of the activities necessary in connection with this Contest.

1. ELIGIBILITY

This Contest is open to belairdirect clients who are residents of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta or British Columbia, who have reached the age of majority in their province of residency at their time of entry in the Contest and who have an active car and/or home insurance policy (“Eligible Person(s)”) during the entire Contest Period.

Employees, agents and representatives of the Sponsor, its affiliated companies, parent companies, advertising and promotional agencies, legal advisors, or parties engaged in the development, productions and distribution of materials related to this Contest, as well as members of their immediate family and/or persons living in the same household during the Contest Period are excluded.

2. HOW TO PARTICIPATE

The Eligible Persons, will be automatically entered into the Contest, when they, during the Contest Period:

OR

No purchase required.

(collectively the “Participants” or individually a “Participant”).

The odds of winning depend on the total number of Participants entered into the Contest.

Limit of one entry per person. Any excess entries will be invalid for the purposes of the Contest.

All Contest entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.

3. THE PRIZE

One (1) cheque in the amount of four thousand dollars ($4,000 CAN) (the “Prize”) will be remitted to the Winner (as defined hereinafter).

The Prize must be accepted as awarded and may under no circumstances be transferred to another person or substituted for another prize, subject to what is provided hereunder.

4. THE DRAW

The Prize will be awarded to a winning person (the “Winner”) based on a random electronic draw amongst all eligible entries received for the Contest.

The draw will be held on May, 14, 2020, 10 a.m EST., at belairdirect’s office located at 7101 Jean-Talon Street East, Montreal, Quebec H1M 3T6.

In order to be declared a Winner, the selected Participant must meet all of the criteria described under “CLAIMING A PRIZE” and his/her entry must be verified by the Sponsor.  

5. CLAIMING A PRIZE

A belairdirect representative will inform by telephone the selected Participant whose name has been selected within seven (7) days of the draw. If belairdirect is unable to reach the selected Participant whose name was drawn within seven (7) days of the draw using all reasonable means, a new draw will take place at belairdirect’s office.

To claim his/her Prize and be declared the Winner, the selected Participant will be required to   correctly answer a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question; and  sign and return a standard form of Declaration and Release Form confirming compliance with these Official Rules within ten (10) business days of the date on which the selected Participant received the Declaration and Release Form for signing. belairdirect will arrange for delivery of the Prize by mail to the Winner upon receipt of the signed Declaration and Release Form.  

Should the selected Participant fail to meet the requirements set out in these Official Rules or be otherwise ineligible to win the Prize, he/she will be disqualified and the Prize will be awarded to an alternate winner in a random draw selected from the remaining eligible entries.

6. GENERAL CONDITIONS

The Sponsor is not responsible for any associated costs incurred by the Winner with claiming the Prize.  The Winner is solely responsible for the reporting and payment of any and all taxes, if any, that may result in claiming a prize in this Contest. Any claim to a prize will be subject to verification by belairdirect, whose decision in this regard and on all matters of fact, interpretation, eligibility, procedure and fulfillment in respect to this Contest will be final and binding. 

Entries in any way tampered with, forged, mutilated, incomplete, illegible, photocopied or mechanically reproduced, or submitted by or through fraudulent means, may be disqualified, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor.  This includes any entry that does not comply with these Official Rules in any respect.

By participating in this Contest, each Participant agrees to release and hold the Sponsor, its affiliated companies, parent companies, officers, directors and partners, including its advertising and sales promotion agencies, as well as their employees, brokers, agents and representatives, of all liability direct or indirect, physical or material arising out of accepting or using a prize, and each Participant releases the Sponsor, its sales promotion agency and all others involved from any recourse, claims or charges that could arise against them or one of them, now or in the future, by the Participant, his/her heirs, executors or estate administrators relating to the Contest or Prize.

The Winner agrees and consents that his/her name, age, photograph, location, voice, testimony and/or statements be used in whole or in part by the Sponsor, its advertising agencies and any other parties involved in the development, production and distribution of materials relating to the Contest, for any purpose, through any media present or future, including social media, in any jurisdiction and in any manner without compensation and without any additional approval from the Winner. No correspondence will be entered into with any person other than the Winner.

Any personally identifiable information collected during a Participant’s participation in the Contest will be collected and used in accordance with belairdirect’s Privacy Policy available at https://www.belairdirect.com/en/infocentre/privacy.html  
The Sponsor, its Agents, and legal advisors are not responsible for and shall not be liable for: (1) lost, late, damaged, illegible, stolen, misdirected, misidentified, or incomplete entries, for any problems or technical or mechanical malfunction of any telephone systems, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, hardware or software programs, failure of any entry to be received by the close of the Contest Period on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by equipment, programming used in this Contest, human processing or otherwise, or any combination thereof; (2) any condition caused by events beyond the control of the Sponsor that may cause this Contest to be disrupted or corrupted; (3) any injuries, losses or damages of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of the Prize, or acceptance, possession, or use of the Prize, or from participation in this Contest; or (4) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with this Contest. 

Should the Sponsor be unable to award the Prize as described in these Official Rules, it reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to replace the Prize with a prize of a similar nature and equivalent value.

A Winner’s express or implied refusal to accept a prize releases the Sponsor from any prize-related liability toward that person.

The Sponsor reserves the right at any time to withdraw this Contest or to modify, amend, change, or supplement these Official Rules, in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law.  The Sponsor also reserves the right, at its entire discretion, to cancel, terminate or suspend this Contest should any event or cause beyond their control arise, which may corrupt or affect the administration, security, impartiality or progress of the Contest, as stipulated in these Official Rules, subject to approval by the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux du Québec.

The Contest is governed by all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws.

For those Participants who are residents of Quebec, any dispute with respect to the organization or conduct of a promotional contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for arbitration. Any dispute regarding the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie solely for the purpose of intervention in an attempt to reach a settlement.  

All Participants who are residents of Ontario agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims or causes of action arising out of or connected with the Contest or any prizes awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration or alternate dispute resolution, as selected by the Sponsor, to take place in Toronto, Ontario; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out of pocket costs incurred in the participation of the Contest but in no event legal fees and expenses; and (3) under no circumstances will a Participant be entitled to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, indirect and consequential damages and any other damages (other than for direct damages limited to actual out-of-pocket reasonable costs), and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. 

Except where prohibited, all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the province in which the Participant resides, without regard for conflict of laws doctrine.

For the identification of the Winner or for a copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: 7101 Jean-Talon Street East, Montreal, Quebec H1M 3T6. Attention: Émilie Bélanger, within one (1) year of the end of the Contest Period.